{"id":51067,"date":"2022-08-04T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51067"},"modified":"2022-08-04T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:41:20","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-cambodian-prime-minister-hun-sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51067","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>08\/04\/2022 12:30 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, in Phnom Penh to discuss U.S. support for ASEAN and Cambodia\u2019s Chair year, as well as efforts to strengthen the bilateral relationship.\u00a0 The Secretary welcomed Cambodia\u2019s partnership on key issues such as health and health security, law enforcement cooperation, POW\/MIA accounting, and regional initiatives like the Mekong-U.S. Partnership. \u00a0They discussed the worsening crisis in Burma, and the Secretary noted the importance of Cambodia\u2019s role as ASEAN Chair in co-sponsoring two UN resolutions condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Secretary asked the Prime Minister to be fully transparent about activities by the People\u2019s Republic of China at Ream Naval Base, emphasizing that an exclusive presence would risk damaging Cambodia\u2019s sovereignty, regional security, and ASEAN unity.\u00a0 The Secretary also urged the Prime Minister to reopen civic and political space ahead of 2023 elections and make progress on democracy and respecting human rights by ensuring all Cambodians, including opposition leader Kem Sokha, can participate freely in the political process.\u00a0 He further pressed the Prime Minister to release activists detained on politically motivated charges such as U.S.-Cambodian dual citizen Seng Theary.\u00a0 The Secretary reiterated the U.S. commitment to the Cambodian people and their aspirations for a more prosperous, democratic, and independent country, where all voices are heard and respected and the Kingdom\u2019s autonomy is protected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/04\/2022 12:30 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51068,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51067\/revisions\/51068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}